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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
However, if said retailer has "magically" duplicated the product of his competitor and is then selling the very same product, that he got from his competitor, fully knowing that the product is indistinguishable, then he is committing vraud. And please note, I dont mean that what he is doing is illegal, I mean that it is dishonest.
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You shouldn't go that far, though.
Calibre costs you free download, PG text costs you free download, the result of the format-shifting is still not a clone of the PG text.
It has laughably small amount of work invested in it (a click of the mouse), it requires laughably small familiarity with the computers, but it is still NOT an outright stealing of the PG text. The fraud, if it exists, is in the amount of money charged for laughably small modification, not in outright duplication of the PG text.